Through twenty-three connected short stories, the author looks into the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in the American heartland. These psychological portraits of the sensitive and imaginative of Winesburg's population are seen through the eyes of a young reporter-narrator, George Willard. Their stories are about loneliness and alienation, passion and virginity, wealth and poverty, thrift and profligacy, carelessness and abandon
Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-511)
Anderson on Winesburg, Ohio -- Winesburg, Ohio: Text -- Winesburg, Ohio: Criticism -- Reviewers -- Critics -- Topics for discussion and papers -- Bibliography